andrewducker | Entries tagged with glasgow

Glasgow still feels much more city-like to me than Edinburgh.

Which is probably why I prefer living in Edinburgh.

(Great to visit though)

1. Port of Los Angeles sees shipping volume down 35% next week as tariffs bite: (tags:USA trade doom china )
2. Council Tax is broken - It's time to fix it: (tags:politics tax uk )
3. A Criminal, Social, And Linguistic Rollercoaster (and a historical mugging in Glasgow): (tags:Scotland language crime funny Glasgow )
4. Solar panels on (nearly) all new UK homes by 2027 under new Labour plan: (tags:solarpower housing GoodNews labour )
5. US judge rules Apple violated order to reform App Store: (tags:apple law usa )
6. Ukraine agrees crucial minerals and economic investment deal with US: (tags:usa ukraine trade mining )
7. Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK: (tags:uk europe healthcare nhs death OhForFucksSake )
8. How Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used 'any means necessary' to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.: (tags:Labour corruption )
9. A robot that can fold laundry! (This is actually massive - handling flexible/floppy fabrics is incredibly hard): (tags:robots clothing video impressive )

1. Research released into the effects of the UK's trans puberty blocker ban: (tags:UK bigotry LGBT transgender healthcare mentalhealth children OhForFucksSake )
2. The move to USB C for charging is a done deal. I'm not sure what the UK has to "consider" about it.: (tags:UK usb Europe electricity )
3. Doctor Who and the Sign Language Question: (tags:drwho sign language video funny viaSwampers )
4. Turns out that once Uber had to make money they started charging more and paying less to their drivers: (tags:driving jobs taxi pay glasgow scotland )
5. "Homeostatic Complacency" is something I've encountered plenty of times. Is there a more traditional name for it?: (tags:psychology behaviour )
6. Seriously ill patients on mental health wards will be helped with their CV: (tags:mentalhealth jobs uk wtf )
7. Too many "local" news sites aren't. I'm so glad that we have at least one in Edinburgh that really is.: (tags:news edinburgh )
8. Confronting the truth about Alex Salmond: (tags:AlexSalmond rape abuse death scotland politics )
9. What's Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?: (tags:globalwarming doom )
10. Labour Together: From new MPs to cabinet ministers, how the influential think tank's donations are bankrolling the party, and who they are linked to.: (tags:labour money corruption )
11. Seven New Frogs Named After Iconic Star Trek Captains: (tags:frog StarTrek names sound viaSwampers )

1. Glaswegian who invented chicken tikka masala dies: (tags:India Glasgow food history obituary )
2. Gender reform bill to make it easier for transgender people to self-identify passes in Scotland: (tags:Scotland transgender LGBT GoodNews )
3. Large swathes of English people use "English" and "British" interchangeably: (tags:UK nationality England britain viaDanielDWilliam )
4. Mastodon is hurtling toward a tipping point: (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
5. A look behind the scenes at how Scotland finally passed a Gender Recognition Reform Act, and how the Tories, knowing they would fail to vote it down, tried to filibuster it.: (tags:LGBT transgender Scotland politics conservatives )
6. The law of participation inequality (that the vast majority of users of a social network read, but don't interact, some interact a bit, a tiny number provide most content): (tags:socialnetworking )
7. Spain approves self-id transgender bill: (tags:Spain LGBT transgender GoodNews )
8. Strange, tentacled microbe may resemble ancestor of complex life: (tags:life )

1. Russia has lost the capacity to mobilise: (tags:Russia war Ukraine epicfail )
2. An Open Letter to Bluey's Parents: Please Stop: We have totally had to play Heavy on many occasions.
(tags:parenting dogs viaSwampers animation funny )
3. Mountain Goats Are Being Airlifted Out of a National Park Because They Crave Human Pee: (tags:urine Goats headline )
4. Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set: (tags:healthcare dataprotection ai photos )
5. Just how long have men and women been switching gender roles for?: (tags:history gender newspapers )
6. Far too much fun in the snow in Northern China: (tags:China snow video fun )
7. Glasgow students without flats told to consider quitting university: (tags:housing university Glasgow )
8. Tucker Carlson accuses schools and hospitals of "sex crimes" and tells viewers they have a moral duty to dole out "instant justice" "no matter what the law says": (tags:USA murder LGBT TV school hospital OhForFucksSake )
9. The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality: (tags:death poverty capitalism )
10. US installs record solar capacity as prices keep falling: (tags:solarpower usa GoodNews )
11. $500,000,000 in funding, 10 years in development, and Star Citizen still doesn't have a release date: (tags:games epicfail )
12. For the first time the British Social Attitudes Survey shows a majority for proportional representation: (tags:reform elections voting proportional_representation UK )

1. The power of speaking up to your friends: (tags:society behaviour )
2. Graffiti art turns Glasgow into colour explosion: (tags:art graffiti Glasgow Scotland )
3. Things to remember about Terry Pratchett's writing career: (tags:writing terrypratchett )

Majority believe MPs who switch parties should fight by-election (63:17) - I entirely disagree: Individual representatives need a nuclear option if they believe that their party is no longer functional, whether that be joining an existing party or forming a new one. Party central offices already have too much power.
(tags:politics UK )
The Guardian says that working class people can't be good looking: (tags:attraction class guardian OhForFucksSake )
In pictures: Glasgow goes Gotham for Batgirl filming: (tags:batman comics movies Glasgow Scotland )
Cats just want a human to curl up on. Even big cats.: (tags:video cats sleep )
What have the Democrats achieved in the last year?: (tags:politics democrats USA )
The BBC thinks that what we need is more antivaxxer nonsense: (tags:UK BBC vaccination OhForFucksSake lies )
UK warns of plot to install pro-Moscow ally in Ukraine: (tags:UK Russia Ukraine )
Tory MP says she was sacked as minister because her Muslim faith made colleagues uncomfortable: (tags:conservatives Islam bigotry )
LGBT BBC staff past and present debate whether it's is even worth saving: (tags:LGBT BBC bigotry )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4140098.html

Scotland's first waste-to-hydrogen facility to be built beside the Clyde: (tags:Glasgow plastic waste hydrogen viaDanielDWilliam )
G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals, set global rate of corporation tax: (tags:tax GoodNews )
Companies must commit to net-zero emissions before bidding for large UK government contracts: (tags:UK government contracts globalwarming )
Watchdog supposed to scrutinise Australia trade deal still won't exist when deal is signed: (tags:Australia trade UK OhForFucksSake government )
Why Are There So Few Women in Wargaming?: (tags:wargames gender inequality )
Explainer: What is a global minimum tax and what will it mean?: (tags:tax )
Big majority of Britons worried about Boris Johnson's plan to lift all Covid restrictions: (tags:pandemic Doom polls BorisJohnson )
I love how it's possible for people who have never even met, and don't have any awareness of each others existence, to nevertheless collaborate with each other through the medium of cats: (tags:cats music video collaboration viaSwampers )
El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender: (tags:bitcoin )
The Ness of Brodgar Excavation Information Panels Are Online!: (tags:archeology Scotland viaDanielDWilliam )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4046947.html

I recommend you do not do this to your penis: (tags:penis injury wtf )
Guess how many objects are in Low Earth Orbit - then click on this link.: (tags:space visualisation viaSwampers )
Trans *and* not skinny? The NHS wants you to fuck off and pay for surgery yourself.: (tags:nhs transgender OhForFucksSake )
NFL pledges to stop assuming that black people are less intelligent: (tags:racism football USA WTF )
"I painstakingly built my own analog drum machine": (tags:drums music technology )
Covid precautions may have killed off one strain of Flu: (tags:pandemic flu viaDanielDWilliam )
"Xbox Co-pilot mode changed my disabled sister's life": (tags:xbox disability amazing games consoles )
The Loaf Guardians: Parsing the Early History of the Anglo-Saxons: (tags:UK history )
Scotland's largest council pension fund backs climate change move: (tags:globalwarming pensions scotland glasgow )
Amazon Won't Test Job Seekers For Marijuana Use, Backs Legalisation: (tags:marijuana amazon legalisation )
Mass scale manipulation of Twitter Trends discovered: (tags:twitter fraud )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4045085.html

'My landlord wants six months' rent upfront': (tags:rent uk )
China allows couples to have three children: (tags:china children )
The first complete sequence of a human genome: (tags:genetics )
Eighteen million trees to be planted around Glasgow: (tags:trees glasgow scotland )
A swimming pool. In the air. Between two skyscrapers.: (tags:swimming architecture UK )
Ever wondered what it looks like to crash into an erupting volcano?: (tags:volcano video drone )
Europe to US: Pass new laws if you want a data-transfer deal (also impacts the deal with the UK): (tags:europe dataprotection usa uk )
Swiss abandon years of EU talks and reject treaty: (tags:Switzerland europe trade )
Covid in Scotland: Army brought in to help Lothian vaccine rollout: (tags:pandemic vaccination edinburgh scotland army )
Belarus has temporarily banned most of its citizens from leaving: (tags:Belarus dictators immigration )
One-Fifth of U.S. Beef Capacity Wiped Out by JBS Cyberattack: (tags:security cows meat )
Graph of average age versus vaccination percentage for UK council areas: (tags:graph vaccination UK age cities pandemic )
Clown-face privilege: (tags:privilege video gender abuse viaSwampers )
Woman tries to look after her mental health by not doing non-core part of her job, employer is a dick about it: (tags:mentalhealth anxiety depression sports tennis OhForFucksSake )
The Edinburgh city dwellers who want a more tribal way of living: (tags:Scotland Edinburgh housing viaJane )
David O Russell is not a good person to work with: (tags:work bullying movies )
NordLink joins Norway and Germany's electrical grids: (tags:norway germany electricity viaDanielDWilliam )
Nautilus - the best sounding, most visually striking speaker of all time: (tags:speakers sound Technology )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4044942.html

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